{"id":2432,"date":"2025-09-25T13:16:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/new-york\/?post_type=press&#038;p=2432"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:16:01","slug":"sen-schumer-fight-back-vote-no-on-deadly-budget-bill","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/new-york\/press\/sen-schumer-fight-back-vote-no-on-deadly-budget-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Schumer: Fight Back, Vote \u2018No\u2019 on Deadly Budget Bill"},"template":"","class_list":["post-2432","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry","press_type-press-release"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":"","press_type":146,"authors":"","related_issues":[106,469],"related_work":false,"location":35},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">New York City, NY<\/span>\u00a0\u2013 As Republican chaos pushes us closer to a federal government shutdown, Common Cause\u00a0New York\u00a0is demanding\u00a0Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)\u00a0reject President Trump\u2019s dangerous budget proposal and stand up for the health of our families and our democracy.\r\n\r\nCongress is the last line of defense against Trump's 'Billionaire Budget,\u2019 which prioritizes tax cuts for the wealthy elite while slashing healthcare and other lifelines that millions of everyday Americans depend on.\r\n\r\n\"Sen. Schumer\u00a0could\u2019ve stopped\u00a0the president\u2019s power grabs in the March funding fight, but\u00a0he\u00a0chose to back down,\u201d\u00a0<strong>said\u00a0Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York.\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cSix months later,\u00a0President\u00a0Trump and his congressional allies have only gotten bolder\u00a0\u2014\u00a0putting our lives at stake by gutting healthcare and critical services for working American families just to give his billionaire friends a tax cut.\u00a0Sen. Schumer\u00a0must\u00a0stand up for\u00a0New Yorkers when we need him most\u00a0to prevent\u00a0President Trump\u2019s\u00a0corrupt,\u00a0billionaire agenda.\u201d\r\n\r\nCommon Cause is calling for Congress to pass a budget that:\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Protects Americans\u2019 access to healthcare by extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits set to expire later this year, and reversing the cuts to Medicaid passed in July.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Creates real safeguards to prevent one president from holding our government hostage and axing government services that children, families, and seniors rely on.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\nIf President Trump continues to prioritize\u00a0billionaire tax cuts over healthcare benefits, families could see their healthcare premiums rise by as much as $4,000 a year\u2014hitting over 20 million Americans as prices are already on the rise.\r\n\r\nThe government will shut down if the president and Congressional Republicans fail to pass a budget that puts the American people first by September 30.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>"}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_add_component","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_add_component":null},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_work","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_work":{"heading":"Work","manually_curate":false,"work":null}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sen. 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